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Who we are

With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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What we do

Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

World Investment Forum 2018

Palais des Nations

8-14, Av. de la Paix

Geneva, Switzerland

October 22 to 26, 2018

  • 5:15 – 5:15 pm (Europe/Oslo)
  • 11:15 – 11:15 am (US/Eastern)
  • 8:45 – 8:45 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI’s Director General will participate in the UNCTAD World Investment Forum — the pre-eminent global platform for investment and development. The Forum devises strategies and solutions for global investment and development challenges. It facilitates multi-stakeholder collective action to stimulate investment in development.

The Forum was set up to fill the investment institutional gap in the international economic governance architecture. Since its inception, it has served as the leading forum to leverage investment policy for sustainable development. Organized under the overall theme “Investment in Sustainable Development”. The Forum will address global challenges for international investment in the new era of globalization and industrialization. Investment stakeholders will gather to brainstorm solution-oriented initiatives and build global partnerships to advance prosperity for all. 

IFPRI Participants:

Responsible Agricultural Investment (October 24, 2018  —  3:30pm – 6:00pm)